Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by Funimation Prod

The broadcast series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009) seemed to deliver the journeys of Edward and Alphonse Elric to a dramatic and definitive conclusion. But the personalitys stay so standard that extra tales about them had been inevitable. The first Fullmetal Alchemist function, The Conqueror of Shambala (2005), which happened after the primary animated collection ended, transported Edward to Weimar-era Munich. The experiences in The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) happen throughout Hiromu Arakawa's authentic continuity however at a brand new location in the acquainted Fullmetal universe: the border between Amestris and its western neighbor, Creta.. Read more Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Machine Gun Preacher [Blu-ray]

Machine Gun Preacher [Blu-ray] by Relativity Media

Machine Gun Preacher takes a fictionalized take a look at the lifetime of Sam Childers, a down-and-out ex-con who found God and an obsessed new calling: to save the orphaned youngsters of southern Sudan. Gerard Butler performs Childers, whom we first meet as a brutish addict, and the actor's intestinesy efficiency has everything to do with making us follow him through the film's winding, globe-spanning turns. Whether delivering an overheated sermon (you get the speculation Childers has replaced one addiction with another) or toting firearms in the route of the unhealthy back highways of Africa, Butler items a forceful creation, person who reminds us that Childers is far from a standard sympathetic hero.. Read more Machine Gun Preacher [Blu-ray]

Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Criterion

Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill on the turn of the century, however should flee the town after by accident killing a person. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up hellos girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and hellos younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better lifestyles, they head straight into tragedy when a rich farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams. Believing hellom to be demise and expecting to inherit a fortune, she has the same opinion to marry him. Their plans exchange when Shepard fails to die and Gere takes topics into his own hands. Aesthetically flawless, this movie a couple of romantic love triangle is diminished by using the small scope of video. Originally shown in 70mm, it's an crowd pleasing period piece that received its cinematographer, Néstor Almendros, a 1978 Oscar. Texture and color are the unbilled personalitys on this tragic tale, and are only as essential because the players. The story, unluckily, fades somewhat when in comparability with the glory of the visuals.. Read more Days of Heaven (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Sekirei 2: Pure Engagement Complete Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Sekirei 2: Pure Engagement Complete Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) by Funimation

(1. Silent Omen, 2. The Wind Blows, 3. The Wind's Answer, four. The Final Feather, 5. The Sekirei of Flame, 6. Words of Binding, 7. A Faraway Tale, 8. Kusa's Play, 9. A Multitude of Bonds, 10. Far-Reaching Sky, eleven. Preparing for the Festival, 12. Tower of Confusion, thirteen. Bonds of Truth, 14. OVA "Two Gossip Topics") The 2d season of Sekirei (2008), Pure Engagement (2010) combines two in style anime styles, the harem comedy and the jiggle journey. Mild-mannered, goodhearted Minato is a ronin: regardless of his intelligence, he's failed the examination to get into the college of hellos choice--twice. He's additionally an "Ashikabi," a human who shares supernatural bonds with the Sekirei, aliens who take the form of human females with extra special powers (not the least of which is maintaining their pneumatic figures inside their scanty costumes). All the Sekirei are pitted against each different in a deadly recreation orchestrated by using the evil president of the all-powerful MBI Corporation, but the six who live with Minato in Maison Izumo spend the primary several episodes squabbling over who's hellos favorite. Episode seven gifts numerous historical past knowledge from season one, however by using that point, viewers could have given up on the tangled but fragmentary plot. The filmmakers attempt to carry the stakes in the later episodes, however the personalitys are so shallow and foolish that the strives to deliver critical emotions come across as bathos. Sekirei: Pure Engagement plays like Love, Hina restaged by using Victoria's Secret. It's an inane succession of jiggle photographs and struggles designed to excite hormonal adolescent boys. The OVA "Two Gossip Topics" acts as a sort of bridge between the seasons, and features even more nudity and boob jokes.. Read more Sekirei 2: Pure Engagement Complete Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray]

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray] by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

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More exciting than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian continues the movie franchise based on C.S. Lewis' basic fable e-books. The film decides up the place the first left off... kind of. It's been a year since the Pevensie children--Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley)--returned to England from Narnia, and they've almost about resigned themselves to dwelling their strange lives. But identical to that, they're as soon as once more transported to a fantastical land, however one with a long-abandoned citadel. It turns out that they are in Narnia once more--and they themselves resided in that citadel, however lots of of 12 monthss ago in Narnia time. They've been summoned again to assist Prince Caspian (Stardust's Ben Barnes, resembling a young, cultured Keanu Reeves), the rightful inheritor to the throne who's turn into the target of his power-hungry uncle, King Mraz (Sergio Castellitto). And he's now not the only one threatened: Mraz's people, the Telmarines, have pushed all of the Narnians--the talking animals, the centaurs and other beasts, the walking trees--to the brink of extinction. Despite some alpha-male bickering, Peter and Caspian agree to battle Mraz alongsideside the remaining Narnians, together with the dwarf Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage) and the swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep (voiced by Eddie Izzard). (Also appearing is Warwick Davis, who used to be in Willow and the 1989 BBC Prince Caspian.) But of course they most of all miss the noble lion, Aslan, who would have never let this happen to Narnia if he hadn't disappeared. Prince Caspian is epic, evoking recollections of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings motion pictures. (Some of the battle parts could seem too familiar, but they had been in Lewis's e book.) And it's applicable for children (Reepicheep can have come out of a Shrek movie), although the tone is darkish and there may just be a lot of dying, albeit bloodless. After two successful movies, Disney and Walden Media's franchise has proved a success sufficient that among the characters are scheduled to come again in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.. Read more Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray]

A Night to Remember (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

A Night to Remember (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] by Criterion Collection

Two 12 monthss after twentieth Century Fox released its melodramatic catastrophe movie Titanic in 1953, Walter Lord's meticulously researched e book A Night to Remember surprised its publishers by changing into a beautiful best possibleseller. Lord had an intuition that readers craved the reality of the Titanic catastrophe and no lengthyer the romantically mythologized translations (like Fox's movie, starring Barbara Stanwyck), which relied on fictional personalitys to "enhance" the world's worst maritime disaster. Lord's e book proved that the truth was far more compelling than fiction, outlining the various "if simplests" (if handiest the iceberg had been noticed a couple of minutes prior, etc.) that lent somber irony to the loss of 1,500 Titanic passengers.. Read more A Night to Remember (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

The Descendants (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)

The Descendants (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) by Fox Searchlight

Only Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways) would suppose to cast the famously good-looking George Clooney as a raveled dad in his outstanding adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings's tragicomic novel. Clooney dials down the glamour to play Matt King, a Hawaii real-estate lawyer with a professionalpensity for unflattering shirts and ill-fitting trousers. When Matt's wife, Elizabeth, leads to a coma after a water-skiing accident, Matt should research to balance the parenting of his resentful daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), with the sale of a pristine plot of Kauai land that stands to make the King cousins, together with scruffy Hugh (Beau Bridges), a fortune. As Elizabeth's condition aggravates, Matt contacts pals and household, like her fiercely protective father (Robert Forster), in order that they'll have the possibility to say goodbye. In the professionalcess, he to finds out she was once having an affair with realtor Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard, successfully solid against type), so he and the ladies, together with Alex's hellolariously mellow friend, Sid (Nick Krause), go on an island-hopping commute, ostensibly so as to add Brian to the combo, however Matt truly desires to search out out what his wife noticed in the guy. His ride from naiveté to knowledge conveys out Clooney's soulful facet, making a believably unsuitable, deeply sympathetic figure. If Payne leans too heavily on the slack-key soundtrack, his love for his personalitys, together with Judy Greer as Matt's feminine counterpart, ends in hellos most emotionally pleasurable movie so far. --Kathleen C.. Read more The Descendants (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)